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Hello, World!

In this Chapter

  • Learn why JavaScript is awesome

  • Get your feet wet by creating a simple example

  • Preview what to expect in subsequent chapters

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is all about displaying things, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is all about making things look good. Using the two of them, you can create some pretty nifty-looking stuff, such as the weather app you can see at http://bit.ly/kirupaWeather. Figure 1.1 shows what this weather app looks like.

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FIGURE 1.1

An example of a layout designed entirely using CSS

Despite how nifty sites built using only CSS and HTML look, they are pretty static. They don’t ...

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